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Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
Part 2: THE SECOND PART AGAINST SCHISM, &c. The Reasons of Mr. Raphson, and such others, agains…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
11. He condemneth as Idolaters all the Churches on Earth, for Six Hundred, if not One Thousand Years after the Apostles; not One Church Christian, or Heretic (as far as any History tells us that I have found) did ever deny such things, as he calls False Worship, or Idolatry. They all •ent further than our Parish Churches do. At Baptism they used the White Garment, tasting Milk and Honey, Chrism or anointing the Forehead, Crossing; they adored only Standing, and not Kneeling, every Lords Day, all as significant Ceremonies: No one Church or Person is said to scruple these; I think they did not well: but God rejected not their Worship.
11. He condemneth as Idolaters all the Churches on Earth, for Six Hundred, if not One Thousand Years after the Apostles; not One Church Christian, or Heretick (as far as any History tells us that I have found) did ever deny such things, as he calls False Worship, or Idolatry. They all •ent further than our Parish Churches do. At Baptism they used the White Garment, tasting Milk and Honey, Chrisme or anointing the Forehead, Crossing; they adored onely Standing, and not Kneeling, every Lords Day, all as significant Ceremonies: No one Church or Person is said to scruple these; I think they did not well: but God rejected not their Worship.
12. He maketh all, or near all the Churches on Earth, Idolaters, at this day: All on Earth, save the Protestants are far grosser in their Liturgies and Ceremonies than the English: Of the Protestants, Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and all the Lutherans, have Liturgies, Crossing, Ceremonies, Church-Images, Consubstantiation. The ⟨p. 16⟩Helvetians are such as are called Erastians, making the Magistrate, the only Ruler, and Sacraments common. Geneva, and France, yea and Holland, have their Liturgies and some Rites.
12. He maketh all, or near all the Churches on Earth, Idolaters, at this day: All on Earth, save the Protestants are far grosser in their Liturgies and Ceremonies than the English: Of the Protesants, Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and all the Lutherans, have Liturgies, Crossing, Ceremonies, Church-Images, Consubstantiation. The